- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- Tube staff under attack, says RMT
- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- GPs 'overpaid for ghost patients'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- Mild weather hits Centrica profits
- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
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- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
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Memory Lane: Hidden tram tracks
GAS mains utility work on Whitegate Drive has exposed a link with that road’s transport of the past.
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Memory Lane: Teenage great escape
SHOWZAM! Central, with its sideshows theme, has brought back colourful memories for reader Jeff Moss.
Memory Lane: Roy’s Fuller life
BLACKPOOL is rarely, if ever, noted for its influence on the literary or cultural life of this country, and yet, amid the distinctive output of former Professor of Poetry at Oxford University, Roy Fuller – born a century ago last Saturday – the resort comes very much into its own.
Memory Lane: Kermit and Co are back
KERMIT and Co are back, ready to be enjoyed by a new generation in a big screen movie, The Muppets, opening in Fylde coast cinemas later this week.
Memory Lane: By the Dickens, he felt better in Blackpool
AS Britain today celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, reader Gerry Wolstenholme looks back on the great English novelist’s solitary visit to Blackpool.
Memory Lane: When crowds flocked for Prince’s visit
THIS week’s royal visit by Prince Edward – one of the country’s first official events to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Year – prompted a search through The Gazette archives for photographs of Blackpool’s earlier encounters with his namesake.
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Memory Lane: When scooting around was fun
LOOK at the chap with the L-plate as this cavalcade of scooterists makes its way along Devonshire Road from Bispham, through North Shore to Layton, in 1958.
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Memory Lane: Classmates
THERE are always plenty of school rules to obey, of course, but when this picture was taken at Highfield School, Blackpool, the youngsters were literally free as air...
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Town with a pier-less view
TWO different plans for a pier at Cleveleys to rival the three Blackpool boardwalks have been unearthed by reader Harold Eastwood, of Normoss.
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Memory Lane: Pub’s handshake with Freemasons’ history
In 1865, Queen Victoria was on the throne of England, and Freemasonry was in its infancy on the Fylde coast, with only two lodges having been formed.
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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